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I $NAP HOOK. No. 295,390! Patented Mar. 18, 1884.

WITNESSES I I v IIVI/ENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT Finch.

GEORGE HAVELL, OF NEWARK, NEYV JERSEY.

SNAP-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming; part of Letters Patent No. 295,390, dated March 18, 1884.

Application filed October 10, 1883. (No model.)

Improvements .in Snap-Hooks an d Snap -Hook Swivels, of which the following is a specification, reference be-i ng had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain improvements in snaphooks; and it has for its objects to providealight, cheap, and ornamental art-icle, as more fully hereinafter specified. These objects I attain hythe means illustrated in the 5 accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a perspective View of my improved snap-hook Fig. 2, a similar view ofa modification oi the same; Fig. 3, a detached view of the spring of the snap-hook,

' 20 and Fig. at a detached view of the blank of which the spring is formed.

The'letter A indicates a hook, which is constructed of a halfround metallic wire, bent into proper shape, and provided with a shank, a, and shoulders I) at the rear.

The letter B indicates a metallic leafspring consisting of a tongue, 0, having ears (Z at the rear, which are bent so as to form a tubular socket, as clearly shown in Fig. 3 of the o drawings. The socket thus formed fits over the shank ofthehook, its forward edge setting against the shoulders on said hook, the forward end of the tongue setting under the end of the hook, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the 5 drawings. The socket is of such length as to permit the end of the shank to project, and to said projecting end is secured a swiveled loop, C, by means ofa washer, c, which is fastened to the shank by riveting the end of the shank. It will be seen that the socket l'ormsashonlder for the swiveled loop, while said attachment serves to hold the spring in place.

In the modification shown in Fig. 2, the swivel is dispensed with and the spring is confined'by forming a loop at the end of the shank.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. A snap hook consisting of a bar bent into a hook at one end and aloop at the other, having a shoulder near the loop, and a leafspring, the free end of which lies normally under the end of the hoolnwhile the other end is provided with wings, which are bent around the bar between the shoulder and the loop for securing said spring in place, substantially as described.

2. The combination with the hook having a shouldered shank, of the leaf-spring formed with a socket to fit upon the shank, and the 'swiveled loop secured to the end of the shank and hearing against the end of the socket, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I aifiX my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE HAVELL.

Witnesses:

J. D. CLARK, A. VAN ARSDALE. 

